Consult
**please note that consult duties (e.g. handling consults to the reading rooms, wet reads, incoming phone calls) extends over the lunch hour - so try to grab lunch early while people are around! or convince a co-fellow to hang out with you in the reading room during the hour ;) **
The consult fellow is the "General Manager" for the day. Responsibilities:
1. Read Diagnostic Cases
2. Handle consults coming to the reading room (please be proactive when a clinician enters the reading room, they usually don't know who to look for, and you can offer to help; try to go over it first, then you can always ask an attending to help look at the case with you if you need it)
3. Protocoling (Including daytime add-ons - PLEASE PROTOCOL THROUGH THE WEEKEND, TO THE FOLLOWING TUESDAY AT LEAST - if you guys do this for each other, it will substantially decrease the number of pages you get on call)
4. Handle all requests and incoming telephone calls including protocols
5. Consenting patients for MRI (e.g. pregnancy, pacemaker) performed in Yawkey (except abdominal MRI). If asked about a consent for an MSK MRI elsewhere in the MGH main campus, please refer the techs to the coverage scheme below.
6. Cover lunch time consults
7. Cover the reading room during conferences - attend the conference remotely via Microsoft Teams
8. If there is no Ultrasound/Education fellow, US coverage would default to Consult, but of course all persons in the reading room could help cover.
*Updated 06/2025
MGH Main Campus MRI consent coverage
Workday Daytime Adult MRI consent coverage
White 1 (ED patients):
Neuroradiology exams consented by ED neuroradiology
All other exams consented by body ED body radiology
Ellison 2 and White 1 (inpatients):
Abdominal exams consented by abdominal radiology (Dodd)
All other consented by neuroradiology (Tavares)
Wang 2:
All consented by breast imaging (Breast Imaging RR)
Lunder 6:
All consented by neuroradiology (L6 RR)
Yawkey 6:
Abdominal exams consented by abdominal radiology (Y6 RR)
All other consented by musculoskeletal radiology (Y6 RR)
Workday Daytime Pediatric MRI consent coverage
All pediatric exams will be consented by pediatric radiology
Workday Off-hours MRI consent coverage:
5 pm-11:30 pm: All exams (except ED) consented by moonlighter
11:30 pm-7:30 am: All exams consented by ED radiology
Weekend/Vacation MRI consent coverage:
7:30 am - 7:30 pm: All exams (except ED) consented by moonlighter
7:30 pm - 7:30 am: All exams consented by ED radiology
Updated June 2025